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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

FBI arrests 6 in alleged plot to attack U.S. army base

Six foreign nationals described by the FBI as Islamic militants were arrested on charges they plotted to carry out a suicide attack on a U.S. army base in New Jersey and "kill as many soldiers as possible," U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

The alleged plan to kill U.S. servicemen at Fort Dix was stopped in the initial stages after investigators infiltrated the group with an informant well over a year ago and secretly recorded the defendants, U.S. attorney Christopher Christie said.

There were no signs the group was directly connected to international terror groups such as al-Qaeda, but were "clearly inspired" by the international jihadist movement, Christie said."This is a new kind of terrorism," Christie told reporters Tuesday. "This is what law enforcement is supposed to do in the post-9/11 era — stay one step ahead."

The FBI was alerted to the group in early 2006 after an individual took a video to a store to be duplicated into DVD format, FBI special agent Jodi Weiss said.The video allegedly showed 10 men, including the six arrested, shooting assault weapons in militia style and calling for jihad, or holy war.The six were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later in the day to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.Officials said four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Jordan, and one in Turkey. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, about 16 kilometres east of Philadelphia and 32 kilometres southwest of Fort Dix, Drewniak said."They were planning an attack on Fort Dix in which they would kill as many soldiers as possible," he said.The men were arrested on Monday while trying to buy automatic weapons in a sale set up by law-enforcement authorities."Today we dodged a bullet," the FBI's Weiss said. "And looking at the weapons they were trying to obtain, we dodged a lot of bullets."A criminal complaint filed by the FBI alleges the men attempted to buy AK-47 assault rifles and maps of the base from an arms dealer who was secretly co-operating with the law enforcement agency.The group also allegedly discussed the need to obtain "something else" other than machine-guns and talked about bomb-making material, including C-4 and nitroglycerin."If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don't want to exaggerate, and I assure you that you can hit an American base very easily," suspect Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer allegedly said in a conversation, one of several secretly recorded by an FBI informant over the past year.The complaint also alleges one of the men discussed the need to obtain a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, approving the mission before they attacked the base.The complaint also alleges the men trained for the attack in the Poconos, and allegedly conducted surveillance at other area military institutions, including the army's Fort Monmouth, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the U.S. Coast Guard Building in Philadelphia."It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away, it doesn't matter. Or I die, doesn't matter, I'm doing it in the name of Allah," the complaint alleges one of the suspects told the informant.The group also allegedly used a laptop to watch video footage of insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. At one point, according to the informant, the men allegedly laughed when one of them pointed out a marine's arm being blown off in an attack."These are the type of people that we were dealing with in this investigation," Christie told reporters.Court papers identified the men as:Shnewer.Dritan Duka.Eljvir Duka.Shain Duka.Serdar Tatar.Agron Abdullahu.The Associated Press reported checks with Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that the Dukas are illegally living in the United States, according to FBI complaints unsealed with their arrests. One of the suspects worked as a delivery man at the nearby pizza restaurant and often took food to the base, investigators said.

2 comments:

Stevo
said...

Hey Älskling, Just need to clearify the former Yugoslavians are of course Bosnians. When US officials talks negative about Bosnians they say "former Yugoslavs" so that terrorism and things like that aren't connected with Bosnia that they created in a way that spilled too much blood. Yes I am part Serb. Should it have been Serbians the US officials would then have said "4 Serbian men"

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